We had decided to not go through the prerequisites separately precisely because of that. RPM is already reporting the errors. It is true that the errors could be reported in a more friendly way, but we had weighed the cost of doing the dependency checking, in both implementation time and execution time, and decided that it wasn't worth it at the time. Now, this was all done before autoupdate was around, so if that work can be leveraged, we could take advantage of it.
Mike On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:15, Jason B. wrote: > SIS reports that there is a problem running the command, nothing more. Rpm > reports the actual errors. As far as constructive suggestions go, I believe > that resolving dependencies has been suggested for over 6 months now. I > realize it's a difficult thing to do, but many projects have it working and > there are various ways to do it. > > Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael > Chase-Salerno > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:14 PM > To: Oscar-devel List > Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] beta 5 testing with Mandrake 8.2 > > > Its incorrect to say that we don't report anything, its right in your > original note, its true that it is an RPM error, but the error is reported > to the user. Its also true that there is a lot of output from SIS, but that > is because it is being called with the --verbose option to provide the most > data about any failures and also is used to update the progress bar. This > output is far from useless when there is a problem. If you have any further > constructive suggestions, I'd be happy to see them here. > > Mike > > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:38, Jason B. wrote: > > No... we don't report anything... it's rpm that errors out. SIS just > > compounds everything by outputting another 50 useless lines of output. > If > > users only saw "packageblah is needed by otherpackagefoo" then it > > would be > > much easier... > > > > Jason > > > > At 05:25 PM 2/26/2003 -0500, Michael Chase-Salerno wrote: > > >We could do some checking, but unless we're going to automatically > > >install stuff, I don't think it will make too much of a difference. > > >We're already reporting that there are prereqs missing, all we would > > >be doing is making the message a little nicer. Not sure that's worth > > >the effort. > > > > > >Mike > > > > > >On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 12:50, Jason B. wrote: > > > > Since I normally don't do much Mandrake testing, I assume I'm > > > > installing the OS differently than those who do more with it (like > > > > the folks at Sherbrooke). I installed it as I do a RedHat system, > > > > which means the standard options, plus Software Development tools. > > > > In doing so, there > > > were > > > > a number of RPMs that weren't installed. Here's the list: > > > > > > > > lynx > > > > libmm1 > > > > nfs-utils-clients > > > > perl-CGI > > > > expat > > > > libexpat1_95-devel > > > > > > > > Since these packages are required before the prereq portion of the > > > install, > > > > shouldn't we be checking some of these to make sure the install > > > > goes well? There seems to be numerous e-mails to the list saying > > > > "I got an error like lynx >= 2.8.5 is needed by ...". I know this > > > > is in the FAQ (IIRC), but we could do some checking... yes? > > > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't > > > > afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. > > > > Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and > > > > more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > > >-- > > >Michael Chase-Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >IBM Linux Systems Technology Poughkeepsie, NY > > >System Installation Suite www.sisuite.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > > >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't > > >afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get > > >hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. > > >www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Oscar-devel mailing list > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't > > afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get > > hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. > > www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > > _______________________________________________ > > Oscar-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel -- Michael Chase-Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Systems Technology Poughkeepsie, NY System Installation Suite www.sisuite.org ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
